Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I think Winston Churchill said the only reason people give a standing ovation is they desperately seek an excuse to shift their underwear. (Laughter.) So certainly before I’ve opened my mouth, that’s true. (Laughter.)Anyway

Good morning and welcome: welcome to my colleagues here on stage, to the family members who have joined us today, and – especially – to the Yale College Class of 2020.2020 – 2020 is a term that inevitably brings to mind perfect eyesight. And now that all of you are wearing 2020 as your class label i

Change will never roll in on the wheels of inevitability It must be carried in on the backs of warriors of love.变化永远不会载在必然性的车轮上 自动到来必须要有肩负爱的勇士 才能带来变化See yourself as those warriors Oh, say, can you see.将你们自己看成这些勇士哦 你可看见That in this world we have work to do See can&#39t you see that in this world that

But when I say a fight, I mean a literal fight Someone had me in a headlock.反正我这里说的打架是动真格的有人把我脑袋夹住2 people around my legs and my aid bursts into the council chambers and says Cory.两个人抱着我的腿这时我助手火急火燎冲到议会大厅 他说 科里You&#39ve got to go man Your plane leaves in fifteen minutes.你需要出发了 老兄你的飞机15分钟后起飞You&#39ve

Eventually we moved on to beach ball for crying out loud then there was the galactic hail.最终冰雹达到沙滩球那么大然后还有银河冰雹And I would try to catch my dad in inconsistencies He would tell me the story about in the mountain of North Carolina he.我经常在父亲的故事中发现不合理的地方有一次他跟我讲北卡罗来纳山区的故事Would start a story about the stee

More beautiful than you realize more powerful than you can imagine.比你所意识到的更美丽比你所想象到的更有力量But you must imagine it as one great author said the most common way people give up their power.但你们必须认识到自己的力量如一位作家所言 人们放弃力量的最普遍方式Is not realizing they have it in the first place I see you.是最初就没有意识到他们拥有这种力量我看到你了Cl

Because for 2 of my years I lived with undergraduates in Pierson College.因为我有两年和皮尔逊学院的本科生们住在一起As a yes and yes.作为 好而且 好The P is for the P in Pierson College So I just cannot take this is an opportunity to say thank you to.P是皮尔逊学院的首字母所以我必须利用这个机会 感谢One of the more extraordinary men i&#39ve met in my a

To the nicer row homes by the park I have seen first class having nothing to do with material things.到公园旁整齐的排屋我看到过同物质事物无关的&quot头等&quotThis world will give you messages that will try to tell you different everyday It&#39s going to try to take you.这个世界会给你各种信息 告诉你每天都有所不同它会将你From a great national tradit

It was a pact funeral home and I didn&#39t want to talk to anybody.殡仪馆人很多我不想和任何人讲话All I could do was stand at the back and look and I started to feel mocked.我只能静静地站在后面 呆呆地看着一切我开始感觉到可笑Not inspired, but mocked by the words of our common ancestry I felt they were haunting me. I would hear things in my

And so I do what I have to do and because of honor and righteousness.于是我做了我必须做的事为了荣耀和正义I cut everybody in line And now, there is carry-on baggage being thrown at the back of my head.我插队到每个人的前面这时 有人把行李箱扔过来 砸到我的后脑勺上It&#39s not mother&#39s day but I&#39m being called a mother And I lean at the counter.

Descend upon your being You will have days like this, I promise you.悲伤会突然来袭你们肯定会有这样的日子 我向你们保证I take no joy in telling you that there&#39ll be mornings you wake up and you&#39ll feel the weight of shame.虽然我不想这么说 但这是必然的 某天早上你们会感受到羞愧的重量Weighing you down in your bed that you don&#39t want to get up I te

We all will be busy but i&#39ve seen it in my work in Newark.我们都会变得很忙但我在纽瓦克的工作中认识到The true heroes are those people that do the small things Alice Walker&#39s book In Search of Our Mothers&#39 Gardens.真正的英雄是那些做着小事的人们爱丽丝.沃克的书《寻找母亲的花园》To paraphrase her, she says it so eloquently that the real revolutio

I used to love it. I looked forward to him, say that Frank, it&#39s Cory I would take him out to go shopping.我原来很喜欢这样 我看着他 说 弗兰克 科里来了我会带他出去购物He couldn&#39t even see, but he wanted me to take him to the movies I said, Frank, I know this great movie about home improvement.他什么都看不见 但他还想要我带他去看电影我说 弗兰克 我知

It&#39s not We&#39re all on the same plane.并不像我们都在同一架飞机上When we hit turbulence, it shakes us all We may not realize it but it does. When.碰到紊流时 我们所有人都会摇晃我们可能没意识到 但事实确实如此We have a hole in the fuselage, threatens all of our well-being and if we go down, we don&#39t go down where the first-class land sa

That I now lead as mayor I want to do something that has probably never been done before at this university.而我现在则是这座城市的市长我的讲法 可能在这座学校历史上前无古人I want to stand here as a Christian in all of my non-Jewish self and give you all a Dvar Torah.我站在这里 作为一名基督徒 一名非犹太教徒而演讲却是摩西五经宣讲For those of you who have no idea

Class of 2013 All right.2013届毕业生们很好I&#39m a little bit fork length right now because.我现在很有些激动因为It is so good to be back here but just that these hats have now have been in this weird state.很高兴回到这里但这些代表自豪和爱国心的帽子Of pride and patriotism as well as dismay that your ascending president here.状态有些古怪你们即将上任的

Fiss and Amar Coleman.费斯 阿玛尔科尔曼So many men and women who taught me so much but I will tell you this I still tell you this day I got my BA from Stanford.很多老师教会了我很多 但我要告诉你们这个我仍然会说 我从斯坦福获得学士学位But my phd on the streets of Newark from folks who cared enough about me.但我的博士学位是在纽瓦克的街头巷尾拿到的它来自于足够关心我的那些人One o

And I scream at here, I go, stop! And this woman swings around.我尖叫到 停这位女士转过身来Sees a former tight end from Stanford University barrelling down on her, she drops her clipboard.看到一位曾经的斯坦福大学近端锋朝她杀来 她吓得把记事板掉到地上Pins herself against the wall She goes, what&#39s wrong. I go, ma&#39am.人钉到墙上她问 出什么事了 我说 女士I am

4.0 yards per carry and 1600 receiving yards your senior year When I graduated from Stanford, my father, grandfather crowded around me.你高中最后一年4.0的平均冲球码数和1600的接球总码数我从斯坦福毕业时 我父亲 祖父围着我They grabbed the program and they said I see you didn&#39t graduate magna cum laude.他们拿起毕业证书说我看到你没有以极优等成绩毕业You didn&#39

And I looked at her. Where am I sitting? Ma&#39am, I&#39m in first class And this was the first time I had flown in first class.我看着她 我在哪坐 女士 我可是坐头等舱这是我平生第一次坐头等舱And they have seats in first class that are made for former tight end from Stanford university.而且头等舱的座位简直太适合我这位前斯坦福大学的近端锋了They are wide seat

And no matter how great and compelling they are as you look into the distance.不管目标多么伟大 多么吸引人在你眺望远方时Don&#39t forget about what is right in front of you today because no matter how great your dreams.不要忘记今天在你眼前的东西因为不管你的梦想有多伟大No matter how great your destiny, never forget that the biggest thing you can

Low-income families and great Americans I still say it&#39s one of the greatest phases i&#39ve ever lived in my life.低收入家庭 以及伟大的美国人我现在仍然认为 这是我生命中最好的时期之一These buildings some of the greatest leaders and teachers or some of the elders in these buildings.这些建筑中住着一些最伟大的领袖 教师 还有一些老者Holding them together wi

President Salovey, Provost Polak, Dean Cooley, Dean Gendler, Secretary Goff-Crews, Chaplain Kugler, residential college leaders, honored guests, and, lest we forget, women and men of the Class of 2020 ... good morning and welcome.I want to extend my welcome to the parents and grandparents, siblings,

I was going after the big brass ring I was going after something where I could make a difference.我正追求重要目标我正追求让我出人头地的东西This was so important And so I didn&#39t have time to follow up on all the details because I was getting busy.这太重要了因此 我不再有时间管细枝末节的问题了 因为我很忙Going after something so important Well i&#

Because my parents would come up to me with my mom saying very different things than other people.当时我父母都到这里来母亲说的和其他人都很不同You know she would come up to me and remind me what I want to remind you all that this should be a day of gratitude.她跟我讲的 同我要跟你们讲的一样说这应该是一个感激的日子She would wrap her arms around me an

I got another call for shooting was on Court Street in our city I go down there, I do the same thing. I&#39m.又接到电话说 我们市的法院街发生枪击事件我到现场 还是和原来一样Going to people, telling them about our plans telling them that we have to pull together.给人们讲我们的计划告诉他们 我们需要团结起来That we are going to fight through this crime th

It was a puritan endeavor to find a space of gravity and divinity here on earth While me on the other hand, I at Yale university.纽瓦克是为清教徒寻找庄严和神圣之地而建立起来的同他很相似 我在耶鲁大学And proud to stand before you right now having founded a religiously based group while I was here.现在很自豪地站在你们面前我也曾创立过一个基于宗教的团体It is known